Busy Weekend For Edale MRT
No fewer than three casualties air-lifted off in separate incidents for central Peak team.
Posted: 16 June 2009
by Jon
It was a busy weekend for Edale
Mountain Rescue Team with three casualties
being air-lifted to safety in separate incidents.
In the first one on Saturday, a walker from Leicester suffered an
asthma attack on Kinder Scout. She was met by a team member and the
team doctor as she descended from the hill and as her condition
deteriorated seriously, an RAF Sea King helicopter was called in to
evacuate her - below - to hospital in Sheffield since the location was
too difficult for an Air Ambulance to land.
Simultaneously, the team was called out to help a walker with a broken
ankle at Upper Tor with the patient being evacuated by air ambulance.
Finally on Sunday, the team was in action again twith a 15 year-old-boy
who was reported to be having an epileptic fit on the Jacobs Ladder
path. The casulaty was lifted off by the Yorkshire Air Ambulance while
the teams were deploying.
More information at www.edalemountainrescue.co.uk
where you can also make a donation via Justgiving.
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